VA Center Proposed for VA Fisher House

The campus of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Salt Lake City has made the short list of possible sites for a VA Fisher House, dubbed a home away from home for families of veterans being treated at a VA hospital.

VA officials said Thursday that if the local community can raise $500,000, the Fisher House Foundation will take a proposal to its board to approve building a 16,000-square-foot home that is able to house 21 guests at a time.

If Salt Lake City makes it through a final round, construction could begin in 2008.

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